Online Research Resources

This list represents a sampling of resources for research that are available on the Internet. This is not intended as a comprehensive list. Please contact HFES if you would like to suggest additions to this list.

Review Criteria
1. Is the resource related to the study and/or practice of human factors/ergonomics?
2. Is the tool current?
3. Is the tool readily accessible (e.g., are posted links to courses currently available)?
4. Is the tool copyrighted/patented?
5. HFES does not guarantee accuracy. It is the user's responsibility to determine the accuracy of the tool and its results.
6. It is the user's responsibility to determine if access is free or requires payment of a fee.

Collaborative Research Resources
• Free peer-reviewed encyclopedia: Scholarpedia

• FastStone Capture Software (reviewed by Snapfiles). Screen capture utility with integrated image viewer and capture editor.

• HCI Bibliography (Gary Perlman, director)

• Softinterface, Inc. Text-Excel Conversion. Converts files from various formats to Excel.

• Skype - Software that permits free calls to other people on Skype.

• Sounds and Sound Effects - A variety of sounds to download.

• UCL Statistical Parameteric Mapping - Software and information for analysis of brain imaging data sequences.

Ethics
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Code of Ethics

• American Psychological Association Code of Ethics

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Ethical Dilemmas in Research Integrity. Examples of ethical dilemmas and other resources.

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity. Resources pertaining to integrity in biomedical and behavioral research.

• Ethics in usability and other resources compiled by Chauncey Wilson. Resources pertaning to ethics in usability.

Experimentation
• The Academic Scientist’s Toolkit - ScienceCareers.org
  Information on various career topics such as getting hired, getting funded, publishing, time management, and lab management.

• University of Mississippi: PSYCHEXPERIMENTS - This tool enables participation in psychology experiments as well as download data.

• Research Randomizer - This too generates random numbers.

Human Factors
• FAA Human Factors Workbench
  A multitude of tools in diverse areas of human factors, including data analysis, modeling and simulation, human-computer interaction, knowledge elicitation, safety, physical ergonomics, and human-system performance.

• FDA Human Factors Program
  FDA Human Factors Program promoting safety in medical device use.

• Bad Human Factors Designs
  Examples of bad designs.

• U.S. Naval Research Laboratory NASA TLX
  Executable file for electronic version of NASA TLX.

• Usability.gov
  A Multitude of resources pertaining to usability.

• Useit.com
  Jakob Nielson’s reports on usability and Web site creation.

• Useit.com
  Ten Usability Heuristics from Jakob Neilsen.

Information Searches
• The Chronicle of Higher Education Information Technology: Using the Internet and Online Card Catalog.
  Resource for teaching undergraduates how to use the Internet and the online card catalog.

Multidisciplinary
• Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).
  Links to a multitude of resources in a diverse array of topics including tutorials in engineering, psychology, and statistics.

Perception
• Viper
  Resource library of images and presentation material for the study of visual perception.

• Psychtoolbox Wiki: Psychtoolbox-3
  Matlab functions for vision research.

• Michael Bach Web site.
  Online examples of optical illusions and visual phenomena.

• Ohio LIONS Eye Research Foundation
  Simulations of Visual Field Loss.

• ArizonaCenter for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  Narrated Simulations of Visual Field Lost.

• University of Utah: Discrete Dynamic Systems
  Tools and resources on epistemology, knowledge, and perception.

Psychology
• Athabasca University Psychology Resources
  Lists of links to numerous topics in psychology.

• Hanover College Department of Psychology
  Links to a variety of resources in psychology, including tutorials, and demonstrations.

• Social Psychology Network
  Lists links to Web sites in a variety of topics in psychology. Includes a randomization tool.

Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research

The following Web sites represent resources at various educational and professional organizations pertaining to research integrity and conducting research in a responsible and ethical manner.

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, CITI course in Responsible Conduct of Research.

• Boston College Research Integrity Program
  http://www.bc.edu/research/rcip.html
  http://www.bc.edu/research/rcip/rcr.html

• Committee on the Responsible Conduct of Research Education
  http://www.rcrec.org/
  http://www.rcrec.org/resources.htm

• Resources for those who teach courses on responsible conduct of research.

• University of California, San Diego, Research Ethics Program

• Michigan State University resources on research integrity and research ethics

• Florida State University graduate courses

• Columbia University Internet tutorials

• Duke University resources in ethics
  http://www.gradschool.duke.edu/policies_and_forms/responsible_conduct_of_research/
  http://www.duke.edu/~wgrobin/ethics/surfing.html

• North Carolina State University modules on research ethics

Statistics
Educational Resources
• National Institute of Standards and Technlogy Engineering Statistics Handbook
  Includes discussions of EDA, methodology and design, modeling and analyses.

• Statistics Glossary
  Definitions of statistics terms and procedures.

• Effect Size
  Explains effect size and how to calculate it.

• Statistical Inference: Working with Confidence Intervals
  Defines confidence intervals and how to calculate them.

• Power Analysis
  Explains statistical power and how to calculate it.

• Claremont University, Web Interface for Statistics Education
  Tutorials, applets, downloads, guides and publications in statistics, signal detection theory, and utility and decision making.

• The Psi Cafè: Research in Psychology - Inferential Statistics
  Links to Web sites that offer information about inferential statistical tests.

• Rice University Virtual Lab in Statistics
  Online statistics book, simulations/demonstrations, case studies, and analysis tools.

• University of Utah: StatCenter Sampler
  Tools for teaching and learning science, methods, and statistics.

• The Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB)
  Tutorials and links to mathematical and statistical resources.

• VassarStats: Web site for Statistical Computation
  Resources for performing statisical computations including probabilities, frequency data, correlation and regression, t tests, ANOVA, and ANCOVA.
  Information on Using Statistical Software

• Central Michigan University: SPSS Online Training Workshop
  Tutorials and clips on SPSS.

• Clemson University: Linear Regression and Excel
  Tutorial on using Excel to conduct linear regression analyses.

• East Carolina University: Multivariate Analysis with SPSS
  Lessons designed to teach students how to run MANOVAs with SPSS.

• East Carolina University: Univariate Analysis with SPSS
  Lessons designed to teach students how to run basic statistical analyses with SPSS.

• SAS Home Page

• SPSS Home Page
  Software and Calculation Tools

• Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
  A complied list of Web sites that perform statistical calculations.

• University of Toronto Statistics Links
  Compilation of links to various topics in statistics.

• ESCI Exploratory Software for Confidence Intervals
  Downloads of interactive simulations on confidence intervals that run under Microsoft Excel.

• The R Project for Statistical Computing
  Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

• Go Power
  Software to conduct power analyses for a variety of statistical tests.

Surveys
• A paper by SPSS that contains guidelines for designing different types of surveys and how to implement surveys.

• Tutorial on creating surveys using Excel by Lorrie Jackson, Education World.

• Online survey design guide with guidelines and principles for Web-based survey instruments based on a human-computer interaction approach.

• Analysis of data from surveys by Professor Hossein Arsham.

• Chapter on survey design from The Survey System's Tutorial, revised July 2006. Creative Research Systems posted chapter as a service to the research community.

• Basic information about surveys

• Survey tips from University of Wisconsion-Extension.

• FAQs on surveys by Jurek Kirakowski.

• General resources on surveys compiled by Gary Perlman.